Sunday, October 19, 2008

Tomorrow Morning's Lesson

I need to do some testing with about half of the students in tomorrow morning's class - this is because I have continued enrollment as I have gained and lost students throughout the past 6 weeks.

I need an activity to keep the students that are already done with testing busy so we are going to do a reading exercise.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
I created this from a version I found on a British web-page of nursery rhymes during a search for some Children's stories for ESL classes. I need to go find the page so I can credit them with the story. (Oh, the things I forget to do when working on a project!) I omitted a few lines (to make it fit on two pages) and changed a little bit of the vocabulary. We are going to talk about making words possessive before we start the reading. I am going to read it aloud to them, then have them read it outloud (taking turns reading paragraphs maybe???) Then we are going to answer all of the questions on the third and fourth page. We usually do a lot of conversation in this class, but they also need to work on writing and vocabulary in their reading, so for a short activity I think this will work out (at least I hope so.) We will see how long it takes, and whether my mostly low intermediate class can process this many words. It will be a break from the section we have been doing on directions and hopefully this will allow their minds to rest a little.

Update: 5 minutes later - OF COURSE I find a typo after posting it. Sorry folks, I don't feel like re-uploading the file. You will have to change Shreiking to Shrieking and then it should be fine.

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